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David Smith

Tennis Coach & Author

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David W. Smith is the Director of Tennis for the St. George Tennis Academy in St. George Utah. David has taught over 3000 players including over 100 state, national and world ranked players during his 30-plus years of teaching tennis.

Dave is Senior Editor of tennisone.com. He has also been a featured writer in USPTA’s magazine ADDvantage in addition to having penned over 50 articles in various publications.

Dave has written 2 landmark books on tennis instruction, Tennis Mastery and Coaching Mastery. He has also co-authored several action-adventure novels.

As a high school coach Dave’s personal team win-loss statistic of over 1,000 wins against less than 25 losses is one of the most successful U.S. coaching records.

Dave has been recognized as a Master Professional by Dunlop Racquet Sports as well as one of only 40 Premier Tennis Professionals by Prince Sports, Inc. and Wilson Racquet Sports.

Dave is owner of Top Notch Tennis (TNT) Academy in St. George, Utah, and has recently ventured into the world of fiction publishing with synergy-books.com. He is married with 2 children and is a musician and an expert close-up and slight-of-hand magician.

Pick the brain of one of the most successful tennis coaches in the U.S. and learn how to create perennial championship teams and successful individual champions! Join David W. Smith as he reveals how he has trained some of the most successful high school tennis programs in three states for over 30 years. With a win-loss record of over 700 team wins against fewer than a dozen loses in his career, Smith has developed countless state, national and world-ranked individuals while coaching huge teams. Learn how to attract large numbers of participants and then discover how easy it is to effectively train such numbers while never having to cut a single player from your program. In fact, as Smith has proven, many of the typical kids many coaches would have cut from other teams, have gone on to become state champions through the methods that he is sharing. With minimal experience, even a novice coach can discover how to develop players through Smith’s “Advanced Foundation” and a wide variety of unique and highly effective drills. This is considered the “ultimate blueprint” for developing highly successful teams.

Why do some beginners move on and reach highly skilled levels of competitive play while others never seem to move out of rudimentary levels of skills, even as they seem to possess equal or even more athleticism and desire? The answer is in the foundation that beginners are introduced to and the patterns of development the student is offered. David W. Smith’s COACHING CHAMPIONS shares his tremendously successful teaching methodology that he has proven successful in a wide range of teaching and coaching applications. From the junior player development pro to the high school coach, from the recreation instructor to tennis pros in academies and clubs, COACHING CHAMPIONS offers a wide range of skill-progressions, drills, expectations, and real-life development programs. The very programs that Smith used to train over 100 state, national and world-ranked players of all ages. Follow these methods and discover a new world of success and successful students.

Coaching Mastery addresses the development of championship players and perennial championship teams, attracting tennis players to your team or program, and sustaining successful programs year after year. Learn how to train large numbers of players in a variety of teaching environments and within limited tennis resources.